Canadian Humanitarian NGO & Canadian Lobster Fisherman involved In Water & Drip Irrigation Community Development in Mali, West Africa. Living Stories. Listening To Stories. Looking for Moments & Memories. Writes very poorly, and is oh so struggling to balance two very different lives.

We provide pathogen free water in remote camps with a very simple filtration setup. Water is totally pure, and bacteria free as a result. Deep pump wells are not able to be drilled in these remote places for such small clusters of people. We are trying to fill that gap.

The bottom billion poorest souls on earth are almost all subsistence farmers. Wish to help the poorest of the poor? They are farmers… This is what the poorest of the poor know how to do. Therefore, they need “plant growth” solutions; ways to increase yield, and income, from small plots of land.

Now imagine this complicating factor; many farming families, the poorest of the poor, also live where they have NINE months of drought?

Solution: Gravity Feed Drip Irrigated Gardens

With water buckets and water barrels watering vegetable gardens through drip irrigation kits, MOPD enables women to grow gardens all year round, on very little water, just south of the Sahara Desert, seriously increasing production, resulting in significant financial advancement.

These Extra Financial Resources Result In:

More Kids Receiving an Education.

Better Family Nutrition.

Better Family Healthcare.

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I real like what you people are doing but I prefer doing that small scale agriculture rather than being employed for small salary, the issue is how can I get those irrigation drip systems for small amount of money to suport my vegetable farming ,as the project is not very common and familiar to our placein Tanzania which is also a dry area.

Thank you for your kind words. I am not certain of how to find this stuff in your country. However, check out http://www.ideorg.org They are in neighboring Zambia and Mozambique. They produces are are always very simple, reliable, and of very modest cost. Good luck.

J. R.R. TOLKIEN – PEACE IS NEVER FREE

"………….. and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk. They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians, and of the labours of those that made possible the long peace of the Shire. They were, in fact, sheltered, but they had ceased to remember it."
J. R.R. Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring" , 1985, George & Allen & Urwin Pub LTD(Page 22-23 prologue)

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Photo is attributed as, “The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband Seperated By A Wall, Holland, 1888.”

Bones placed in Animistic Religious Ritual

Jean Claude spreading already fermented coco out to dry.

My son Ted with me on a return trip to Ivory Coast in 2009. His first time back in Ivory coast since his childhood. Coffee drying.

Some of my coco growing friends. A happy reunion in 2009. Man I miss these guys.

90 km In the Bush.Doing Drought Season Drip Irrigated Gardens.

View From the Pier in Segou.

Farming tools have not changed for these people for 300 years.

Our orange lady, who passed away.

By the Baffond on Niaradougou. By the Potato fields.

Road to Bankagooma Land

Storage Granery for Millet to feed the family though 9 months of drought in Sahel.